Word: truck
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Zephyr's cab, Engineer Ray Flaar, 61, shouts above the wild clatter of the rails: "I've made this run so many times I know every crosstie and humpback. But I'll tell you, there is always something new to see." A red pickup truck whirls out of a dusty side road, races the train for a few miles and then, pulling ahead, suddenly swerves over a crossing just 50 yards ahead. "Come fall," Flaar shouts, "when everybody is going down to the grain elevators, you get lots of guys racing you to a crossing." He tugs...
...expropriated; the government has announced that the company will be compensated, but the amount has not yet been fixed and most of it will be paid in hard-to-redeem bonds. In January the junta decreed that the nation's mainly U.S.-owned auto industry-13 car and truck assembly plants worth $25 million- must be "Peruvianized." By next year the companies must sell 51% of their stock to local citizens...
...Berman, the manager, has very vivid memories about driving the truck which held the cellos, basses, and percussion. "That truck was a kind of wonder. I don't remember whether the back door worked or not, but if it did it was the only thing on the truck that did work. The tail-lights were broken, the speedometer was broken. The right front door wouldn't open and it wouldn't close but existed in a state somewhere in between so that the person sitting on the floor next to the door (there was only one seat, behind the steering...
When HRO and truck arrived in New Yourk City there was nowhere for the truck to stay at night (you can't park anything all nights on the streets) so the truck was just left in front of the Harvard Club and various members stayed up all night watching to see that it wasn't hauled away. Sometimes a policeman would drive down the street, stop and look at the truck, go a little further, stop and look back, drive around the block...
...ballads so beloved in American popular music, Blue Grass stretches to deal with love from home and family; the life of the soil: the chronicling of great events in ballad form (e.g., "White House Blues," a song about the death of McKinley); the perils of such diverse occupations as truck driving, horse racing, railroading, mining, soldiering, and crime of all types; loneliness; the joy and humor of living and the pathos that goes along with it. The range of expression in Bill Monroe's songs and music is a reflection of his living life to its extremes. An especially important...